Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation.

VIII, 168 p. Lediglich der Einband ist leicht berieben, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a good and clean copy without annotations. - CONTENTS 201 Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Classical Greek literary letters Introduction Classical Greek literary letters: the texts Euripides 15 Herodotus 18 Thucydides 20 Xenophon 21 2 Hellenistic literary letters Introduction Hellenistic literary letters: the texts Antiphanes 26 "The Greek Anthology": Rufinus and Philodemus 27 "Anacreontea" 27 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic Introduction Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic: the texts Lucian 34 Phlegon of Tralleis 38 Chariton 41 Achilles Tatius 44 "The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre" 45 4 The epistolary novella Introduction The epistolary novella: the texts "The Letters of Themistocles" 56 "Chion of Heraclea" 82 5 Pseudo-historical letter collections of the Second Sophistic Introduction Pseudo-historical letter collections of the Second Sophistic: the texts Aeschines 103 Anacharsis 105 Apollonius 108 Demosthenes 110 Diogenes 112 Hippocrates and Democritus 113 Isocrates 117 Plato 119 Socrates and the Socratics 123 "Letters of the seven sages": Solon and Thales 127 6 Invented correspondences, imaginary voices Introduction Invented correspondences, imaginary voices: the texts Aelian 138 Alciphron 141 Philostratus 157 Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780415285513